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and several species of grass spread their handsome illegible iles in the openings Immense areas however are perfectly smooth
hard white plantless. Here is what the early emigrants called the 40 mile-desert well marked even now by bones wagon wrecks.
Anyhow it is beautiful however unfit for juicy fruits wheat. From the mountains we had a glorious view of this rare old lake.
Towards sunset it was one mass of color beautiful delicate as tints rose petals or the lips of shells. One of the most ineffably
beautifully of all Natures paintings. The gray forbidding mountains too are rich in gardens watered by streams to small to
sing audibly. Wish I had space to tell you about them, but Alack a letter tells nothing. We next ascended the Augusta Range.
Then crossed more hot valleys passed over the Desetoya Shoshone ranges crossed Reese River Valley climbed one of the highest
of the Toyabe summits (11,000 feet). From here we will proceed in a general easterly direction to the Wasatch Mountains will
probably be out until November. I was thinking of your leafy home the other day. Will the changed state of affairs of the
Sierra lumber Co. allow the waters of Chico Creek to flow once more in natural purity? We are all baking browning finely,
some roses blooming shedding scale-like petals. Mine is not yet so far advanced the heat has but little effect. Had a letter
from your sister Prof Gray just before leaving San Fran. My next address good for two weeks from this date will be underlined:
Eureka, Nevada . Care A.F. Rodgers, U.S. Coast Survey I see that the irrepre illegible Gunning has been in Yosemite. He is
mistaken about the moraines he mentions. in margin: With cordial regards to the General. I am ever your friend John Muir.